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Average rent in Blackrock

From the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in Blackrock, Co. Cork.

The average rent registered in Blackrock was €1,805 a month in October to December 2025.

On the same quarter a year earlier it rose 9.7%, from €1,645. Over the five years on this page it rose 32.7%.

The shape of it

Quarter by quarter

  1. Q1 2021€1,360
  2. Q2 2021€1,385
  3. Q3 2021€1,392
  4. Q4 2021€1,376
  5. Q1 2022€1,401
  6. Q2 2022€1,397
  7. Q3 2022€1,422
  8. Q4 2022€1,415
  9. Q1 2023€1,440
  10. Q2 2023€1,463
  11. Q3 2023€1,472
  12. Q4 2023€1,508
  13. Q1 2024€1,538
  14. Q2 2024€1,564
  15. Q3 2024€1,625
  16. Q4 2024€1,645
  17. Q1 2025€1,693
  18. Q2 2025€1,715
  19. Q3 2025€1,791
  20. Q4 2025€1,805

The bars do not start at zero. A rent series never goes near it, and a bar drawn from zero would make every quarter look identical.

By number of bedrooms

  1. Two bed€1,597
  2. Three bed€2,032

Measured at Q4 2025. Where a size is missing, the Board withheld it because too few tenancies of that size were registered to publish a figure.

By property type

  1. Apartment€1,544

Measured at Q4 2025.

Year by year

  1. 2008€1,033
  2. 2009€952
  3. 2010€863
  4. 2011€849
  5. 2012€851
  6. 2013€874
  7. 2014€905
  8. 2015€966
  9. 2016€1,059
  10. 2017€1,188
  11. 2018€1,269
  12. 2019€1,336
  13. 2020€1,352
  14. 2021€1,385
  15. 2022€1,430
  16. 2023€1,497
  17. 2024€1,611
  18. 2025€1,759

What this figure is, and what it is not

It is the average rent on tenancies in Blackrock that were registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, which every landlord is required to do. It is an average rather than a median, so a small number of expensive lettings pull it upwards.

It is not the rent being asked in advertisements. An asking rent is what a landlord hopes for and this is what was signed.

It is not what a sitting tenant is likely to be paying either. A tenancy enters this average at the rent agreed when it started and does not enter again, so the figure leans towards recently agreed rents and sits above what somebody who has been in the same home for years pays.

If your own rent is going up, the figure that governs it is not this one. What a landlord may lawfully charge is worked out from the rules and your own history, and the rent increase calculator does that with the figures shown.

Buying instead of renting in Blackrock

The median house in Blackrock sold for €440,000 in 2025, across 69 sales on the Property Price Register. Every year since 2010 for Blackrock.

A sale median and a rent average are two different statistics about two different sets of homes. Neither one converts into the other and nothing on this site treats them as though it did.

Average rent across Co. Cork, and every other town in it.

Where this comes from

The quarterly and annual average monthly rent tables published by the Residential Tenancies Board, via the Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Imported 9 September 2026. The yearly figures come from the annual table rather than from averaging the quarters, because averaging four averages would produce a figure the Board never published.

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